"But she must have been older than you." "Yes--a little.

She was kindness itself to me at all events, then and afterwards.

That was the charm of the weeks at Malvern." "I see," the young man laughed.

"The charm was that you had recovered." "Oh dear, no!" Mr.Longdon, rather to his mystification, exclaimed.

"I'm afraid I hadn't recovered at all--hadn't, if that's what you mean, got over my misery and my melancholy.